A Sermon Preach'd Before the University of Oxford at St. Peters Church in the East on Mid-Lent Sunday, March 29, 1685Leonard Lichfield, 1685 - 28 pages |
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... relation to our felves , and the prefent occafion .. I begin with the firft Propofition , That we are not at our own liberty to entertain what Opini- ons we please concerning our felves , but that we ought • ought to regulate them by ...
... relation to our felves , and the prefent occafion .. I begin with the firft Propofition , That we are not at our own liberty to entertain what Opini- ons we please concerning our felves , but that we ought • ought to regulate them by ...
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... relation to our Practice , what Opinion we entertain concerning our felves . Indeed there are many acts of the Understand- ing which tho originally free , yet fall under no Obligation by reafon of the Indifferency of the Matter , as in ...
... relation to our Practice , what Opinion we entertain concerning our felves . Indeed there are many acts of the Understand- ing which tho originally free , yet fall under no Obligation by reafon of the Indifferency of the Matter , as in ...
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... relation to God , our Neighbour and our Selves . And do First in relation to God , w Booxil yas As As Folly leads to Atheism , fo does an over- ( 2 )
... relation to God , our Neighbour and our Selves . And do First in relation to God , w Booxil yas As As Folly leads to Atheism , fo does an over- ( 2 )
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... relation to our Neighbour , it unqualifies us for Obedience to Civil Go- vernment . For how can he submit to the Wif dom of his Superiours , and pay an implicite deference to the Occult reafons of State , who thinks himself wifer than a ...
... relation to our Neighbour , it unqualifies us for Obedience to Civil Go- vernment . For how can he submit to the Wif dom of his Superiours , and pay an implicite deference to the Occult reafons of State , who thinks himself wifer than a ...
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... relation to our Selves , here is this grand ill confequence of an immoderate falf - esteem , that it unqualifies us not only for higher attainments , but even for the very endea- vours of improvement , and fo cuts fhort and be- dwarfs ...
... relation to our Selves , here is this grand ill confequence of an immoderate falf - esteem , that it unqualifies us not only for higher attainments , but even for the very endea- vours of improvement , and fo cuts fhort and be- dwarfs ...
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Abfurdities and ill according as God action muſt adviſe affuming againſt alſo altho Apoſtle Babylon becauſe he thinks becauſe tis Befides beſt Cauſe cellencies Cenfure concerning our felves confider confiderable confifts courfe Defire derſtanding Dictate Difcourfe Divine elſe faid feem felf fhall fhould think fince Firft Firſt fome Standard fruftrates all Methods ftand fubject fuch fufficient Gnostics God has dealt Happineſs Herod highly Hypothefis ill Confequences indow'd Intellectual JOHN NORRIS juft laft place lefs length refolv'd loves himſelf Mankind Maſter Meaſure measure of Faith miſtake moſt muft natural neceffarily underſtand neceffary Neceffity never fo notwithſtanding obferve Obligation Opinions we pleaſe Paffion perveniffe pleas'd pleaſe concerning poffible prefent Preparatory Pofition proceed fo Proud queſtion real worth reaſon reflect regu rily ſelf Soul neceffarily ſubmit thefe themſelves theſe things think foberly think himſelf third and laft thoſe acts Twas Univerſity unleſs unqualifies uſe Vertue whatſoever wherein whofe whole
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Page 5 - For I fay, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think, of himfelf more highly than he ought to think, but to think foberly, according as God hath dealt to .every man the meafure of Faith.
Page 17 - What man knoweth the thinges of a man if not the spirit of man which [is] in himself.